Nine Members of Michigan-Based Militia Accused of Plotting to Kill Police Officers; Will Be Subject to Electronic Monitoring.

A judge said nine members of a Michigan-based militia accused of trying to plot war against the government can be released from jail on bond.

U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts on Monday overturned the April 2 decision of a federal magistrate judge. She says all can be released with electronic monitoring devices and other strict conditions.

The government says the nine members of a southern Michigan militia called Hutaree are radicals who planned to kill police officers and more. They were charged in March with conspiracy to commit sedition and attempted use of weapons of mass destruction.

Posted May-3-2010 By

fern420

Posted May-4-2010 By

fritoman

The United States is correct that it need not wait until people are killed before it arrests conspirators, U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said in a decision this morning. But, the Defendants are also correct: their right to engage in hate-filled, venomous speech, is a right that deserves First Amendment protection.

Posted May-3-2010 By

MarkusMarone

Posted May-3-2010 By

jumpingforJoy

Plus, they could file suit agains the leftwing liberal media for sensationalizing the story and assessing the 'terror group' label to them. I'd sue their nuts off. I bet this was just a rural family, who enjoy outdoor shooting activities and might have joked about something anti-government. The media just took pictures of them wearing camo on a hunting trip and made it sound like they dress like that all the time and carry guns everywhere they go. What a bunch of shit. I feel for these people.

Posted May-3-2010 By

sun-warrior

Releasing all of them? If there was sufficient evidence to charge these folks with conspiracy to murder, then it seems insane to allow them to post bail. I suspect some big chunk of the government case has collapsed.

Posted May-3-2010 By

john731863

They got shit on them and even the judge knows it. The so called bomb evidence is road signs they found at the property, supposely they were going to waste the time cutting up road signs for shrapnel instead of going to Home Depot and buying a pound of nails. They will walk or either get a sweet plea deal.

Posted May-3-2010 By

jumpingforJoy

There is still a few bullet riddled signs on the backroads out here so I know what you mean. I read the speech he was going to give and I can tell you it wasnt anymore extremist than what most people here write. The 1st amendment will clear their names or so I hope.

Posted May-3-2010 By

hlabrake

When I heard that the father (David Stone Sr) was being harassed by a local cop, the local cop shinning his 10,000 candle watt spotlight into the family home at 3 in the morning it came as no surprise that a person would say "I'd like to kill that bastard" and being a member of law enforcement the feds took it as a threat against law enforcement.

The whole case will unravel on the grounds of free speech.

The fire arms they owned were all legal fire arms purchases, they weren't even iMore..n possession of explosive, which a federal informant was going to supply them with. It's entrapment and free speech.

If they were any threat to anyone the judge would have never granted bond. It is a weak ass bullshit case.Less..

Posted May-3-2010 By

jumpingforJoy

Sedition is a term of law which refers to overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority as tending toward insurrection against the established order.

US Code Title 18 Part 1 Chapter 115 Section 2384:

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by forcMore..e the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

Free speech does not cover seditious or treasonous speech. Just as yelling fire in a crowded theatre is illegal, so is seditious speech.Less..

Posted May-3-2010 By

notatheist

The quoted statue applies to speech directed against the Government of the United States of America, and as such in the transcript of the speech in question the defendants never once spoke of rising against the Government of the United States of America....

Posted May-3-2010 By

Giant_Baba

Just because, even though you've read it, you'll still say they never said the NWO was/is affiliated with or is our government seeing as how your only argument is semantic:

"They forget, they live in our neighborhoods. They shop at our grocery stores. They eat at our restaurants. We are the ones who control everything in this nation from preparing the food that they eat to running the power stations that they get their electric from to even maintaining the roads they drive down."

"The whole nation has stood on one voice about no more Waco's but every day in this nation we see another Ruby Ridge or Pastor Steve Anderson traffic stop taking place. We can not allow this any more if we are serious about taking our nation back from the elitist New World Order."

There it is. He identified the government as being part of the NWO.

Not to mention they were targeting cops and their families to begin with.Less..

Posted May-3-2010 By

notatheist

The government will lose in this matter once it is brought before a trail by jury.

You lose.

and I am not a co-conspirator as you wish to label my opinion as such.

Justice will run it's course, and the federal government will lose.

In closing, every American needs to be concerned, themselves and their families future with, what is the New World Order?
Who are these people?
Where are they located?
What is their net worth? How vast of a fortune do they control?

Posted May-3-2010 By

jumpingforJoy

Just another prime example of the how the police are not longer here to protect and serve. They are here to provoke, intice and arrest nothing more. The Obama administration is so full of itself its sickening. The worst of the worst ever to sit in the Oval Office. Pretending to be president bowing down to world scum like the Chinese leader pc of shit. Obama should be impeached NOW!

Posted May-3-2010 By

klm123

Posted May-3-2010 By

liveleakblos

"The worst of the worst ever to sit in the Oval Office" bahahahaha
sure he is a crappy president but the worst ever? Just to name 2 worse than him... Bush Jr and Nixon. if sure you can come up with a few more as soon as you get past the fear of a black man.

jumpingforJoy

Posted May-3-2010 By

hlabrake

I LMAO at the people who were not only duped into voting for and empty suit, I LMAO at the people who were duped by the media into thinking we actually have our first BLACK president!! BAWAHAHAHAHA. Idiots, he is NOT BLACK. HE is a Mulatto, the Mulatto Community has its first president not the Blacks, sorry. MORONS.

Posted May-3-2010 By

klm123

Posted May-3-2010 By

fern420

In other words, the whole thing was just big giant steaming pile of staged bullshit designed to start an Clinton-style anti-redneck hysteria. Those people are lucky they didn't get "blockaded" into their "compound" and immolated to death.